Merle Haggard: 30 Essential Songs

April 6, 2016 8:16 PM

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From the defiance of "The Fightin' Side of Me" to the melancholy of "If We Make It Through December"

One of his many nicknames was the "Okie From Muskogee," taken from his song of that title that became a conservative anthem during the Vietnam War. But "conservative" was never the way to describe the country music phenomenon that was Merle Haggard. A pioneer of both the Bakersfield sound and the Ou...